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Mar 16, 2010
FORT OGDEN (FBW) -- The days of worshiping in a triple wide and baptizing in a cattle trough are almost over for First Baptist Church in Fort Ogden, as they broke ground for a new 52,000 square foot building Feb. 7.

Nearly 700 persons attended the ground breaking which is ten-fold from when 70 members who called Pastor Wayne Earnest to the church seven years ago.
Mar 16, 2010
PENSACOLA (FBC)- The 2005 Recipient of the Clyde Maguire Ministers' Wives Award, Cascile Middleton Knight, died Tuesday, Feb. 23 in Pensacola after an extended illness. She was 91.
Mar 15, 2010
CANTONMENT (FBC)—Forty-nine million Americans, including 17 million children, are food insecure according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The food insecurity paints a picture of those who hunger.

Mary Harris is such American who suffers from hunger. After her husband died four years ago, she was unable to receive his retirement. Living on a fixed income, she is responsible for not only herself, but her grandson.
Mar 15, 2010
Since moving to Graceville in 1968 to teach at what was then Baptist Bible Institute, but now the Baptist College of Florida, I have been privileged to serve in 47 interim pastorates in some 35 different churches. Serving in churches as diverse as small rural to large urban fellowship has provided the opportunity to observe Baptists in varying contexts. One unique aspect stands out. In three different churches there has been one man who voted in the negative on nearly every issue at every business meeting. The reaction in all three churches was the same. “Aw, don’t worry about it preacher. He’s just trying to be different.” Sometimes we are better off to ignore differences, but if we cannot we must strive to understand them.
Mar 15, 2010
Outside of the moment that I called upon Christ to deliver me, August 6 is the most important day in my life. On August 6, I received as my wife in marriage a precious gift from God to me. My wife and I celebrate this important day annually. The day marks the beginning of our family. We remember. We praise. We celebrate together. We celebrate with close family.
Mar 12, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BP)—Against the backdrop of a land as rugged and wild as it is spiritually lost, the North American Mission Board commissioned 30 new missionaries and chaplains, many of whom will serve Alaska and its northern neighbor, Canada.
Mar 12, 2010
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (NAMB)—What could be better than serving as a North American Mission Board missionary in picturesque Colorado Springs? After all, the city of 380,000 backs up to the base of snow-capped, 14,000 feet-tall Pikes Peak on the edge of the Rocky Mountains.

Money and Outside magazines have both deemed it as No. 1 on the list of the best places to live in the United States. It’s perceived as a Christian “mecca” and nicknamed “The Evangelical Vatican” because so many evangelical Christian organizations are headquartered here—Focus on the Family, The Navigators, the International Bible Society and Young Life, just to mention a few.
Mar 12, 2010
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NAMB)—Mike McQuitty has almost always seen himself as a missionary. He gave his life to Christ at the age of six and in high school, realized he loved ministry work and especially missions.
Mar 12, 2010
CHICAGO, Ill. (NAMB)–Two blocks east of the “El” Train Red Line in Uptown Chicago, a lady named Susan limps from under a covered bus stop.

“That’s my spot. I was here. I just had to sit down.”
Mar 12, 2010
FBC Orlando’s David Uth announces plans for nomination
ORLANDO (FBW) – Bryant Wright, senior pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga., will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the June SBC annual meeting in Orlando, David Uth, pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando, announced March 11.

Wright is the first announced candidate for president in 2010. Current SBC President Johnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., is ineligible for re-election.
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